Club’s Christmas Party Monday 21st December

 

Click the collage to see photos of our Christmas Party

Results of the “Supermarket Trolley Dash”

The Rotary Club of Fairy Meadow would like to thank the management and staff of Woolworths Fairy Meadow for their support and help over the last few weeks while we have been selling raffle tickets in the store.

Thanks also to all those who purchased tickets in our raffle. Details of how the proceeds from the raffle will be distributed will appear on this blog at a later date.

 

Congratulations to our three prize winners!

First Prize goes to Ticket Number 0634 M. Mitchell.

Second Prize goes to Ticket Number 1686 M. Farquhar.

Third Prize goes to Ticket Number 0177 T. Wright.

The Rotary Club of Fairy Meadow Inaugural Citizenship Awards

These awards are based on Rotary Principles and the Four Way Test.

President Laurie attended the Mount Ousley Primary School Awards Assembly on Wednesday 9th December. This award was presented to Vanessa Ng. Vanessa is a Year 6 student at the school and was chosen by school staff to receive this award.

 

President Laurie attended the Fairy Meadow Demonstration School Awards Assembly on Friday 11th December to present the Rotary Club of Fairy Meadow Citizenship Award. Tina Nguyen was the proud recipient of this award.

This morning, 14th December, President Laurie attended the Pleasant Heights Primary School Awards Ceremony to present Danika Adamski with the inaugural Pride of Workmanship Award. Mount Pleasant school already awards a Citizenship Award therefore our award is a Pride of Workmanship Award.

What in the World is Rotary?

Presented by Roger Climpson OAM

PP of the Rotary Club of Lane Cove District 9680

Supermarket Trolley Dash

The Rotary Club of Fairy Meadow presents:

“The Supermarket Trolley Dash”

 

Raffle tickets will be sold at Woolworths Fairy Meadow from Tuesday 24th November until the draw date and time of Friday 18th December at 5:00pm.

First Prize: A two (2) minute trolley dash at Woolworths Fairy Meadow. (Conditions apply).

Second Prize: A Woolworths WISH Gift Card valued at $100.

Third Prize: A Woolworths WISH Gift Card valued at $50.

All proceeds will go to local and international Rotary projects.

The draw will take place at the Woolworths branch of Fairy Meadow on Friday 18th December at 5:00pm. The Trolley Dash for the winner will take place at Woolworths Fairy Meadow on Saturday 19th December at 07:15am. before the store opens. The first place getter will be given two minutes to dash around the supermarket filling a supermarket trolley with grocery items. The Rotary Club of Fairy Meadow will pay for the contents of the trolley. See conditions below.

RULES AND CONDITIONS

· The draw will take place at Woolworth’s Fairy Meadow store at 5pm on Friday 18^th December. The winners will be contacted by ‘phone.

· The results will be published at http://fairymeadowrotary.blogspot.com/

· The Supermarket Trolley Dash will take place at the Woolworth’s Fairy Meadow store on Saturday 19th December at 7:15am before the store opens.

· The first placed winner, or their nominated representative, will be allowed two minutes to take a trolley around the super-market filling the trolley with items from the selves.

· Only the prize winner, or their nominated representative, will be able to push and load the trolley.

· The prize winner, or their nominated representative, will only be allowed to choose items from shelves in aisles 2-11.

· The prize winner, or their nominated representative, will only be allowed to choose one of each item from the shelves, including only one electrical item from the electrical goods area.

· The prize winner, or their nominated representative, will not be allowed to choose cigarettes or alcohol.

· The Rotary Club of Fairy Meadow will pay for the contents of the trolley.

Group Study Exchange Team from India

On Monday 9th November we hosted the Group Study Exchange (GSE) Team from District 3050 in Rajasthan, India.

The team comprised of the Team Leader Rotarian Seema Singh from the Rotary Club of Udaipur Meera (an all female club):

and four team members: Pooja Sharma sponsored by the Rotary Club of Ahmedabad West,

Shivani Zaveri sponsored by the Rotary Club of Bhuj Flamingo,

Chirantan Kothari, sponsored by the Rotary Club of Jodhpur,

and Pratik Jain sponsored by the Rotary Club of Ahmedabad Metro,

The Rotary Foundation’s Group Study Exchange (GSE) program is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for businesspeople and professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in the early stages of their careers. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits in paired areas of different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's culture and institutions, observe how their vocations are practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas. Read more about the GSE programme here.

The day was a mixture of vocational exchange and cultural exchange. Early morning saw the team divide into two, some spent time with Bill Watts at the Bendigo Bank in Fairy Meadow and the rest visited St Mary Star of the Sea College in Wollongong.

Mid-morning was a photo opportunity around the lighthouse and the chance to inspect the interior of a Winnebago motorhome. Thank you to the generosity of an unsuspecting Victorian who had stopped to have lunch with his wife. Great interest was shown by the team in the motorhome and everyone clambered inside for a guided tour! The owner kindly showed them all the features of his motorhome both inside and outside.

After this we took the team to the Mount Keira look-out to see the sights of Wollongong. Unfortunately it was a bit cloudy but none-the-less was worth the effort of driving up there.

Later President Laurie invite the team back to his home for lunch.

After lunch we were invited to do a tour of the Port Kembla facilities by Katherine McDonogh who is the Service Delivery Manager for Swire Shipping. We are very grateful to Katherine who collected the whole team from President Laurie’s home and spent a couple of hours showing us around the facilities at Port Kembla.

We were introduced in to the world of logistics and the seamless supply chain. We saw the huge ships that transport cars (3,000 cars per ship if I remember correctly). Different types of containers 40 foot ones and 20 foot ones, half height containers, open top containers for lose items and so on.

We were introduced in to the world of Freight Forwarders, local Customs, local quarantine, licensed customs brokers and dangerous goods management.

We visited the Port Kembla Coal Terminal and the Grain Terminal, specialist areas that are dedicated to the movement of coal and grain in the Inner Harbour however there were no coal ships or grain ships in port at the time. We saw huge imported turbine blades that are destined for wind farms.

The tour culminated with a visit to the Visitors’ Centre in the Port Kembla complex.

Once again a special Thank You to Katherine McDonogh for her generosity of time and spirit, it is much appreciated by the whole team.

That evening the Group Study Exchange Team attended our normal Monday meeting where we were able to learn more about their daily lives and the work that they do. Each presented an insight to their daily lives of their hopes and aspirations.

 

         

Pratik did (one of?) his party pieces. His interests lie in mathematics, computers and computer based learning. He asked those present to give him a number and he would calculate the cube root of that number in his head. (So long as the answer was in the range of 1 to 99). After much fumbling of electronic calculators on mobile phones he was given the number 39,304.

In a very short space of time he was able to give the correct answer of 34, a very impressive feat indeed.

We naturally swapped club banners and at the end of the meeting the team also sang for us.

 

To Seema, Pooja, Shivani, Chirantan and Pratik we wish you well in your future endeavours and maybe you will visit us again. We hope that the day you spent with us was both informative and enjoyable.

Seema best wishes to you and the members of the Rotary Club of Udaipur Meera and the work that you do with women and children less well off than yourselves.

Pooja we would be interested to hear from you about the progress you make in your philanthropic work and the development of your NGO.

Shivani, keep on singing!

Chirantan keep enjoying life with your joint family and who knows maybe one day you will holiday in Australia in a motorhome!

Pratik, best wishes for success with your e-learning portal www.quickmaths.com

ShelterBox’s greatest challenge yet

This story sourced from the ShelterBox UK website

Emergency Pacific Appeal

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The Indonesian island of Sumatra has been struck by two earthquakes in less than 24 hours.  Yesterday, the first earthquake caused buildings to collapse and fires to rage in the city of Padang.  A second earthquake hit the island early this morning, causing further devastation.  ShelterBox are already sending volunteers and boxes.

On Tuesday, an 8.3 magnitude earthquake caused a large tsunami that crashed into Western Somoa, American Somoa and many other islands in the South Pacific.  The islands have been left shattered, with thousands of homes destroyed and a rising death toll. Again ShelterBox has sent a team of volunteers to assist.

Over the weekend the Philippines was hit by the hugely destructive Typhoon Onday (Ketsana), ShelterBox immediately sent a team of volunteers who have witnessed thousands of people evacuated to churches and municipal buildings. They say the conditions are unimaginable.  The typhoon has been described as ‘one of the most damaging storms of recent years' for this region.

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Read a news release from ShelterBox Australia here.